Genesis 27
1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyesight was failing so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
依撒格年紀已老，雙目失明，看不見了，遂叫了他的大兒厄撒烏來，對他說：「我兒! 」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
2 He said, "Look, I am old now. I do not know the day of my death.
他說：「你看，我已年老，不知道那天就死。
3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt down a wild animal for me.
現在你拿器械、箭囊和弓，往田間去打點獵物，
4 Make me the tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."
照我的嗜好給我作成美味，拿來給我吃，好叫我在未死以前祝福你。」
5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went out to the field to hunt for a wild animal and bring it back to his father.
依撒格對他的兒子厄撒烏說這話時，黎貝加聽見了。厄撒烏就到田間去給父親打獵，
6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
黎貝加對自己的兒子雅各伯說：「我聽見你父親對你哥哥厄撒烏說：
7 'Bring me a wild animal and prepare for me some tasty food, that I may eat it and bless you in my presence before my death.'
你去給我打點獵物來，作成美味，叫我吃了，好在死前當著上主的面祝福你。」
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
現在，我兒，要聽從我吩咐你的話。
9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two choice young goats. I will prepare them in a tasty way for your father, the way he likes it.
到羊群裏去，給我拿兩隻肥美的小山羊來，我要照你父親的嗜好，給他作成美味，
10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
你端給父親吃，好叫他死前祝福你。」
11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
雅各伯對母親黎貝加說：「但是我哥哥渾身是毛，我卻皮膚光滑，
12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
萬一我父親摸我，必以為我哄騙他，我必招來咒罵，而不是祝福。」
13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
母親對他說：「我兒，咒罵歸於我，你只管聽我的話，去給我拿來。」
14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
他遂拿了來，交給了他的母親，他母親就照他父親的嗜好作成了美味。
15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
黎貝加又將家中所存的大兒厄撒烏最好的衣服，給她小兒雅各伯穿上；
16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
又用小山羊的皮，包在他的手上和他光滑的頸上，
17 She handed the tasty food and the bread which she had prepared to her son Jacob.
然後將自己作好的美味和餅，放在他兒子雅各伯的手裏。
18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
雅各伯來到他父親前說：「我父! 」他答說：「我在這裏! 我兒，你是誰﹖」
19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please sit up and eat what I hunted so that you can bless me."
雅各伯對父親說：「我是你長子厄撒烏。我已照你吩咐的作了。請坐起來，吃我作的野味，好祝福我。」
20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because your God gave me success."
依撒格對他兒子說：「我兒! 你怎麼這樣快就找著了﹖」雅各伯答說：「因為上主你的天主使我碰得好。」
21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
依撒格對雅各伯說：「我兒! 你前來，讓我摸摸，看你是不是我兒厄撒烏﹖」
22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
雅各伯就走近他父親依撒格前；依撒格摸著他說：「聲音是雅各伯的聲音，手卻是厄撒烏的手。」
23 He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau. So he blessed him.
依撒格沒有分辨出來，因為他的手，像他哥哥厄撒烏的手一樣有毛，就祝福了他。
24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."
隨後說：「你真是我兒厄撒烏嗎﹖」雅各伯答說：「我是。」
25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of what my son caught so that I can bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
依撒格說：「我兒! 遞給我，叫我吃了你作的野味，好祝福你。」雅各伯於是遞過去，他吃了；又給他拿了酒來，他也喝了。
26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
他父親依撒烏就對他說：「我兒! 你前來吻我。」
27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the scent of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Look, the scent of my son is as the scent of a field which God has blessed.
他就前去吻了父親。他父親一聞到他衣服上的香氣，就祝福他說：「看! 我兒子的香氣，像上主祝福的肥田的香氣。
28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
惟願天主賜與你天上的甘露，土地的肥沃，五穀美酒的豐裕!
29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
願眾民福事你，萬國叩拜你! 願你作你兄弟的主人，你母親的兒子叩拜你! 凡詛咒你的，必受詛咒；凡祝福你的，必受祝福。」
30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just left the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
依撒格一祝福了雅各伯，雅各伯剛由他父親依撒格面前出來，他哥哥厄撒烏打獵回來了。
31 He also made some tasty food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father get up and eat of what his son caught, so that you may bless me."
他也作了美味，給他父親端來，對他父親說：「我父! 請起來吃，你兒預備的野味，好祝福我。」
32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
他父親依撒格對他說：「你是誰﹖」他答說：「我是你兒，你長子厄撒烏。」
33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then that hunted an animal and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
依撒格不禁戰慄起來，驚問說：「那麼，是誰打了獵物給我送了來﹖並且在你未來以前，我已吃了，已祝福了他；他從此必蒙祝福。」
34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out loudly and bitterly, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
厄撒烏一聽見他父親說出這話，就放聲哀號，對他父親說：「我父，請你也祝福我! 」
35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
父親答說：「你弟弟用詭計來奪去了你的祝福。」
36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has taken what should have been mine these two times. He took away my birthright. Look, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
厄撒烏說：「他不是名叫雅各伯嗎﹖他已兩次欺騙了我：以前奪去了我長子的名分，現在又奪去了我的祝福。」繼而問說：「你沒有給我留下祝福嗎﹖」
37 Isaac answered Esau, "Look, I have made him your lord, and I have made all of his brothers his servants. And I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?"
依撒格回答厄撒烏說：「看，我已立他作你的主人，將所有的兄弟都給他作僕人，將五穀美酒都供給他了。我兒，我還能為你作什麼﹖」
38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
厄撒烏對父親說：「我父，你只有一個祝福嗎﹖我父，你也得祝福我。」厄撒烏就放聲大哭。
39 Isaac his father answered him, "Look, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
他父親依撒格回答他說：「看，你住的地方必缺乏肥沃的土地，天上的甘露。
40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
你要憑仗刀劍生活，要服事你的弟弟；但你一強盛起來，將由你的頸上擺脫他的束縛。」
41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
厄撒烏因為他父親祝福了雅各伯，便懷恨雅各伯，心下思念說「為父親居喪的日期已近，到時我必要殺死我弟弟雅各伯。」
42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Look, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
有人告訴了黎貝加他大兒子厄撒烏所說的話；她便派人叫了她小兒雅各伯來，對他說：「看，你哥哥厄撒烏想要殺你洩恨。
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
現在，我兒! 你得聽我的話，起身逃往哈蘭我哥哥拉班那裏去，
44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
與他住些時日，直到你哥哥忿怒消失了。
45 until your brother's anger against you subsides, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and get you from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
幾時你哥哥對你息了怒，忘了你對他作的事，我就派人去，從那裏接你回來。為什麼我在一日內要喪失你們兩個人呢﹖」
46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is my life?"
黎貝加就對依撒格說：「為了這兩個赫特女人，我厭惡得要死；假使雅各伯也從這地的女人中娶一個像這樣的赫特女人為妻，我還活著做什麼﹖」
